Hong Zhang
Principal Engineer, Director at Databricks
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHong Zhang is a Principal Engineer and Director with 11+ years of leadership at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems and cloud security, currently building a serverless compute layer for untrusted workloads at Databricks. Previously a long-tenured Principal Engineer and Area Tech Lead at Google, he helped design Google’s planet-scale service mesh, introduced API governance across Google APIs, and created core GCP security controls like VPC Service Controls and Admission Control. His career spans foundational infrastructure work from search freshness at Google Search to threading and regex in HotSpot JVM at Sun, and early search and crawler systems at Baidu and Yahoo. Based in Bellevue, WA, he combines deep systems engineering with product-minded platform leadership and a track record of shipping secure, production-grade services at hyperscale. An uncommon thread through his work is repeatedly solving trust and isolation challenges—whether in JVM internals, mobile enterprise sync, or multi-tenant cloud runtimes.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Materials Science, Master's degree Materials Science at Chinese Academy of CeramicsBachelor of Science - BS Materials Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Materials Science at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (78)
api-management10
programming-language10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
authentication10
proxy10
accelerator10
interpreter10
security10
consul10
istio10
rest-api10
microservices10
cloud-native10
service-mesh10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/oauth2l
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
oauth2l ("oauth tool") is a simple CLI for interacting with Google API authentication.
Contributions:36 commits, 17 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 6 months
apigoogle-apiapi-authenticationauthenticationoauth
wora/protorpc
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
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